- physdesc
-
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3.36 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"8 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
-
{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2001-046", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18689", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
-
{"value"=>"1894-2000", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1894/2000"}
{"value"=>"1930-1944", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1930/1944"}
- date_inclusive_start
-
1894
- date_inclusive_end
-
2000
- keydate
-
1894
- unittitle
-
{"value"=>"Mildred Sherman papers"}
- repository
-
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
-
{"value"=>"American dramatist and puppeteer, Mildred Sherman, was director of the Gellendré Theatre Studio in New York City from the 1940s to the mid-1960s. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, performance programs, press clippings, and scripts documenting Sherman's personal life and professional career."}
- prefercite
-
{"value"=>"<p>Mildred Sherman papers, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
-
{"value"=>"Sherman, Mildred", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
-
{"value"=>"<p>Born in Seattle in October of 1903, Mildred Kate Huhn taught performance arts in Washington and Maine before co-founding the Repertory Playhouse Associates in 1931 with her first husband, Herbert Victor Gellendré. Sherman and Gellendré met while both were dramatic directors at The Cornish School in Seattle. The Repertory Playhouse Associates ran a number of theatres in New York and New England, including the Gellendré Theatre Studio of New York City; The Keene Summer Theatre in Keene, New Hampshire; and The Gellendré Country Theatre in Goshen, Connecticut. Huhn and Gellendré continued to work together through their divorce in 1955. After their formal separation, Huhn opened her own actors studio in New York, which she ran until 1965.</p> <p>Huhn remarried vaudeville actor Joseph T. Sherman in May of 1957 in Maryland. Soon after, the couple moved to Lahaska, Pennsylvania, where they opened a restaurant in 1965 called The Soup Tureen. Sherman died in 2000.</p>"}
- scopecontent
-
{"value"=>"<p>The Mildred Sherman papers include biographical materials, correspondence, screenplays, photographs, and subject files that document her personal life and professional career as a performing arts instructor. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and annotated script excerpts Sherman used during her years as a drama teacher. Nearly all of the letters were written to Sherman by her first husband and theatre partner, Herbert Gellendré, and contain information about their professional and personal lives together. Also in the collection are two scripts written by Gellendré.</p> <p>Biographical materials are comprised of Sherman's marriage certificates, performance programs, press clippings, and resumes. Subject files are made up of press clippings, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Sherman's former pupils, actors with whom Sherman worked in Seattle and New York, and typed notes on the history of theatre. The miscellaneous file includes artwork, postcards, and greeting cards.</p>"}
- arrangement
-
{"value"=>"<p>This collection is arranged alphabetically by format.</p>"}
- acqinfo
-
{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Natalie Costa-Marron and Dorothy Dahl, July 2001.</p>"}
- processinfo
-
{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Sarah Wade, Pratt Institute, 2012.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>The collection was arranged alphabetically according to genre.</p>"}
- userestrict
-
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
- extent_statement
-
3.36 linear feet (8 boxes)
- date_start
-
1894
- date_end
-
2000
- date_bulk_start
-
1930
- date_bulk_end
-
1944